1 - Getting started

Welcome to our workshop!

Today we are gonna explore building collaborative peer-to-peer
applications. We are gonna go through a lot of different interesting
concepts around data structures, data views, networking, and much more.

First thing we need to make sure if that we have a recent version of Node.js and npm installed.

Exercise

Try opening a terminal (if you are using Windows use PowerShell or equivalent) and run:

node -v

and

npm -v

We recommend you to be on at least Node.js 8.11.1 for this workshop, so go to
https://nodejs.org and download 10 if you are on an older version.

If a at anytime you get stuck raise your hand and someone will come down
to help you as soon as possible. You can/should ask your peers around you,
too! You can learn a lot by working through challenges together. If you are
doing this workshop at home feel free to ask @mafintosh, @noffle, or
@okdistribute questions you might have :)